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Monthly Question Page
Q. Why is it that I read the Bible but don’t seem to get a lot out of it?
A. There are several things that keep us from understanding and enjoying the Word of God.
Firstly, it is only in the power of the Spirit that we can truly enjoy and understand the Scriptures. The Lord pointed this out to the disciples while He was still with them. “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). If we are allowing something in our lives that is hindering the Spirit from teaching us we need to confess it so that we “grieve not the holy Spirit of God” (Ephesians 4:30).
Remember too, it is not through our own intellect that we gain true knowledge of the Bible. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14). Pray as you read and ask the Lord to open your understanding. This He delights to do. “Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures” (Luke 24:45).
Lastly, don’t struggle with the things you don’t understand; enjoy the things you do understand which the Lord has already made precious to your heart.
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